Corporations and Religious Freedom

Stephen Colbert recently treated his viewers to a funny spoof of the claim that for-profit corporations may have religious-freedom rights. Corporations "follow the one true profit," his joke went. Mr. Colbert was responding to a federal appellate court ruling that the contraception-coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act violated the religious freedom rights of Hobby Lobby, a crafts store that objected to covering contraceptives that would prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg.